By Michael Lacey March 29, 2001

In frigid waters north of Japan, in the Sea of Okhotsk, fewer than 100 Western Pacific gray whales, until recently thought vanished from the planet, feed each summer. Imagine scientists' excitement at discovering this lost tribe -- and their dismay that their research is intertwined with massive oil and gas drilling that could wipe out the whales... More >>>

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A whale hunt by Siberian natives in the Chukotka region of Russia, from a video taken by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1997.